WordPress 3.2 has been out for a while now, which some rather big changes and introduced some great new features. Some folks love the changes, some folks aren’t too happy with the changes, and others are just happy to keep using such a great blogging platform. No matter how you feel about the changes in WordPress 3.2, you might be interested in this great interview with Matt Mullenweg by WebProNews on the philosophy and thoughts behind WordPress 3.2.

Aqua Haze features aqua blues and greens on a dark chocolate background. Rbox is a very neat and clean black and white business theme. You’ve Got Mail is a tongue in cheek theme based on a “message in a bottle.”

New plugins Bookmark Now enables your blog readers to share articles on social bookmark networks. GD Unit Converter adds simple to use administration dashboard widget for converting values for currency, time, speed, length, temperature and more between different units. SimpleReach Slide recommends related posts on a widget that “slides” in at the bottom of the page. Updated plugins Cookies for Comments sets a cookie on a random URL that is then checked when a comment is posted. If the cookie is missing the comment is marked as spam. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. UI Labs offers experimental WordPress admin UI features with the aim of building upon and enhancing the default WordPress User Interface. These are unofficial core UI experiments – who knows what could happen?

Now that WordPress 3.2 is out of the way, the development schedule for WordPress 3.3 has been posted. We can look forward the overall enhancements and fixes to be confirmed next week on July 27th, with the first beta possibly landing on September 21st, and a potential final release date of November 15th. If you have been on the sidelines about contributing to WordPress, now’s the time to get involved. Find a ticket to fix, submit a patch for your own feature request, or just help out around the forums and documentation. No matter what you choose to do, make this the first release where you can proudly say, “I helped with that.”

Nest is a simple grey and white theme with theme options and widget support. WPTuts has a clean and modern design, post thumbnail support, homepage slider, custom menus, custom google fonts, built-in pagination, and more.

WordCamp San Francisco, the annual WordPress conference, will be here in just a few weeks. A few great speakers have already been chosen, but the organizers are looking for a few good recommendations from past WordCamp attendees. If you have attended a WordCamp in the past, vote now to nominate your favorite speakers for this year’s WordCamp San Francisco.

New plugins Count Shortcode is a shortcode to count number of posts that match a given set of criteria. Faceted Search Widget allows filtering of any search results of archive (tag, category, year, month, etc.) by any built in (category, tag) or custom taxonomies. Force Strong Passwords forces users with executive capabilities to use something strong when updating their passwords. Updated plugins Artiss YouTube Embed is an incredibly simple, yet powerful, method of embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress site. Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Theme-Check allows you to run checks on the current theme before uploading to WordPress. This plugin uses the same API and is kept more or less in sync with the WordPress.org uploader tool. UI Labs offers experimental WordPress admin […]

Coaster is a blue and orange two-column theme. Garden Explosion is a 3 column theme in vivid greens, yellows, pinks and oranges.